Raising intercultural awareness through voice-based telecollaboration: perceptions, uses, and recommendations

Fostering cultural competence awareness and dispositions to reach thirdness or decentering by engaging in intercultural dialogue

“…The trained group showed attitudes of curiosity and skill in discovery by exploring diverse themes in the conversations with their international peers. This study showed significant changes in the development of intercultural skills, which supports Angelova and Zhao's (2014) and Dugartsyrenova and Sardegna's (2018) studies of the impact of intercultural dialogue in the development of cultural self-awareness.…”

“…Student #6 shows attitudes of self-awareness and co-construction of a third place by acknowledging previously held assumptions about other Colombian university students based on his first encounter with Carlos. This attitude was similar to Anna's belief transformation about Canadians from Dugartsyrenova and Sardegna's (2018) study. Anna thought that Canadians loved the outdoors.…”

“…These essays also provided spaces for cultural comparisons that the literature cites as one critical skill that facilitate the co-construction of a third place (Byram, 1997;Dugartsyrenova & Sardegna, 2018;Kramsch, 1993). The pieces reflected two different styles of making comparisons.…”

“…They found that both groups developed cross-cultural awareness of each other's countries and their own country. Dugartsyrenova and Sardegna (2018) researched the uses and opinions of 28 American, Canadian, Korean, Latvian, Taiwanese, and Russian pre-service teachers on the use of a voice-based CMC tool to raise intercultural awareness. Eleven of the 28 students highlighted the positive experience of learning about each other's culture from direct sources.…”

Polycultural Linguistic Personality Formation In A Digital Educational Environment Of A University

“…A linguistic competence formed in a foreign language lesson ensures the development of a polycultural personality and helps to expand the horizons, the need for studying and analyzing versatile information, the formation of independence of opinions and judgments (Dugartsyrenova & Sardegna, 2019;Ilie, 2019;Woods et al, 2020). https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.11.03.86 Corresponding Author: Anna V. Rubtsova Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN: 2357-1330 812 Thus, the development of a polycultural personality of students should be based on the need to involve each student in an active cognitive process at all levels of their studying; sufficient communicative practice; creative application of the studied linguistic and cultural information, which provides for the creation of a productive language environment close to real life situations.…”